Progenitor Cells of Interstitial Cells of Cajal: On the Road to Tissue Repair

Gastroenterology

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1252-1254

  Huizinga, Jan D ^a   White, Elizabeth J ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFERON;

CELL SURVIVAL; EDITORIAL; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY DISORDER; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE INNERVATION; LEYDIG CELL; NONHUMAN; PERISTALSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEM CELL; STOMACH PARESIS; TISSUE REPAIR;

EID: 41349118517     PISSN: 00165085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.gastro.2008.02.074     Document Type: Editorial

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